Commented at YF, but in the spirit of Jules' recent post, let me add to the conversation here, as well.
For some reason, PNs set during the OT and featuring the classic characters are historically extremely rare. I can only think of the awesome "Old Friends" series that trod a similar time frame.
As such, this is a particularly appealing endeavor and fortunately it is as consistently awesome and entertaining as one would hope.
You really just nail the "feel" of the classic trilogy and the essence of the characters, while also filling in a lot of "gaps", not just between the OT and the PT but between what we imagined the characters doing in between films. I never read much EU on the subject and didn't care for what I did read, so this stuff is as good as gospel for me. It really does feel like getting another glimpse into that old familiar galaxy.
I confess to not catching many of your easter eggs, aside from the Rykrof cameo, so please hurry up with your "list", as you often do!
And bring us another chapter asap! I have loved this series from Day 1 and I will happily rancor joust Jules to reclaim my crown as "#1 Fan".
Thanks Lance!! No need to Rancor joust, you BOTH can be my #1 Fans - which is quite an honor to me. That really means a lot to me.
Ok. Here is the list of "Easter Eggs" in this chapter
* The title "A Time to Lament" is loosely taken from Ecclesiates 3:4
* Panna system "Ring Base" is taken from cartoon from Holiday Special
* The dialogue between Han & Leia was going to be a little more risque. I was going to borrow some dialogue from the t.v. show J.A.G. where the female laywer is talking to another woman who just rode in a jet about some people not liking to be "strapped down," and the woman replies that she didn't have a problem at all with being "strapped down." But I couldn't find the episode to use the dialogue, so I just dropped it.
* The Y-Wing in hyperspace - the hyperspace is actually a Windows desktop background.
* "Inside Hangar Bay 94" is of course a shout-out to Jules username, and his youtube videos "Inside the Hangar bay"
* Luke's "vintage" crack is a joke about the Naboo "vintage" figure.
* Scene with heroes flanked by Wookie and guards was actually photographed next to a 4ftx4ft glass block window in my bathroom. I've been trying to work that window in as a background for several chapters now!
* It is "implied" that Rykrof Enloe and his Wookie friend are two characters in this chapter
* The Rodian pilot is Nessoo Graww from "Rancor Squadron" of Jules' "X-Wing Alliance" photonovel
* Leia's speech is made up of famous Margaret Thatcher quotes. Growing up in the 80s, Thatcher was the most powerful female in politics of my youth.
* Leia's outfit is of course a throwback to Padme's outifit in AOTC
* Luke's conversation with the Shaak Ti custom (can't remember the ailien race name, she's not Shaak Ti by the way) is borrowed/adapted from the dialogue between Kevin Costner and Tom Petty in The Postman where Tom Petty actually plays himself.
* The background of Naboo was made with hand painted 4" PVC pipe for the columns and some wall sconces just flipped upside down
* Zartanus camouflage ability to actually turn invisible is a throwback to a GIJOE comic where Zartan does this in the Pit.
* Naboo pilot declares Dodonda is dead is borrowed from Perceptor's line concerning Optimus Prime in Transformers the Movie. I thought about having him say, "He's dead Leia. Leia, he's dead." But didn't know if I'd get tarred and feathered for having a Star Trek line in a Star Wars photonovel.
Jason
